He leads a research group exploring new forms of matter of ultracold atoms, in particular novel aspects of superfluidity, coherence, magnetic ordering and correlations in many-body systems. The systems he is interested in include Bose-Einstein condensates, strongly interacting Fermi gases, ultracold molecules and atoms in optical lattices.
Awards and Achievements
- Fritz London Prize in Low Temperature Physics ( 1999)
- Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics ( 2000)
- Nobel Prize in Physics ( 2001)
- National Academy of Science
- German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina